1 This was a practice bombing target for trainee air crews. The fall of bombs was observed from two observation towers.
2 The existence of a WW2 bombing range was confirmed ...
A Second World War bombing range at Priors Hardwick. The range was used by trainee bomber aircraft crews for practising hitting targets with bombs. The site is located to the west of Priors Hardwick.
1 Substantial brick and concrete remains at SP458563 are probably the remains of one observation tower.
A World War Two observation post associated with the bombing range to the west of Priors Hardwick.
1 A three runway bomber airfield opened June 1942 as a satellite to RAF Chipping Warden but soon transferred to RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. Major facilities included: two 1400 yard (1.28Km) ...
RAF Gaydon was a Second World War bomber airfield. It opened in 1942 as a satellite airfield to RAF Chipping Warden and later to RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. It is located 1.5km north of Chadshunt church.
1 Church Lawford was principally used as a training base for instructors.
2 Oblique air photo showing an unusual runway layout.
3 Pill boxes at airfield: two type 22 at SP45 72 ...
RAF Church Lawford, a Second World War airfield that was used for training instructors. The airfield was situated to the east of Dunsmore Heath.
1 Type Q decoy at Wolverton, one of two sites for RAF Honiley. Military Grid Ref 82/670820, NGR SP2161.
The site of a Second World War bombing decoy. This was a system of lights or fires used as a conterfeit target for enemy aircraft who would drop their bombs on the decoy instead of RAF Honiley. The decoy site was located 900m south east of Wolverton.
1 At Wootton Wawen there was a decoy site Type Q, one of two sites for RAF Honiley, Military Grid Ref 82/582815, NGR SP1261.
The site of a Second World War bombing decoy. This is a system of lights or fires used as a conterfeit target for enemy aircraft who would drop their bombs on the decoy instead of RAF Honiley. The decoy site is located 1km west of Little Alne.
1 Two brick shuttered mass concrete walls built to close Bridge 29 on the Warwick & Napton Canal. This may have been part of the Oxford/Birmingham defence line.
2 Description, sketch ...
The site of a anti tank road block which formed part of the defences during the Second World War. Some of the thick concrete walls of the road block still partially stand. They are situated 300m west of Bascote Locks.
1 A grass relief landing ground for RAF Church Lawford opened in 1940. The minimal facilities included 4 blister hangers (one each at the E and W perimeters) and the ...
The site of RAF Southam, an airfield which was opened in 1940, during the Second World War as part of the defence of Britain. There were 37 buildings associated with the airfield which closed to flying in 1944. It was situated to the south east of Southam.
1 An underground command post (Type 1108/41) with protected observation cupola. For the defence of airfields primarily in the event of attack by paratroops. Now converted into a museum by ...
A battle headquarters site, an underground command post with protected observation cupola at RAF Wellesbourne Mountford. It was built for the purpose of coordinating the defence of the airfield during the Second World War, primarily in the event of an attack by paratroops.
1 Originally a three storey brick building with a ‘look out’ principally used to control aircraft. Originally part of a range of other buildings, the control tower now stands by ...
A control tower associated with the Second World War airfield north east of Atherstone on Stour. The control tower was a three-storey brick building which is still largely standing.
1 An arrangement of concrete pathways laid out in geometric shapes so as to be visible from the air. Each shape, or signal, had a special meaning (eg land on ...
The site of a signal square, a series of concrete shapes laid out on the ground. They were associated with the Second World War airfield to the north east of Atherstone on Stour. The signal square was designed to provide instructions to pilots flying over the airfield.
1 An underground command post (believed to be type 1108/41) with protected observation cupola for the defence of airfields primarily in the event of attack by paratroops. Presently having the ...
The site of the battle headquarters building at the Second World War airfield to the north east of Atherstone on Stour. The building, which was built underground, was used for coordinating the defence of the airfield. It was situated on the northern side of the airfield.
1 A non-symmetrical, semi-sunken, hexagonal pillbox about 13ft (4m) across. Rooofed with concrete 12 ins (300mm) thick; the side walls are 15 ins (380mm) thick. A ramp leads down to ...
The site of a Second World War pillbox used to defend the airfield to the north east of Atherstone on Stour. The pillbox is hexagonal and has a concrete roof. It is situated on the north side of the airfield.
1 Seen only from a distance appears similar to SMR 7996.
The site of a pillbox dating to the Second World War. It was built in order to defend the airfield to the north east of Atherstone on Stour. The pillbox was situated on the west side of the airfield, 400m north east of Atherstone on Stour.
1 Drill hall on Lancaster Road marked on 1923 map.
The site of a drill hall which was used for training military personnel towards the end of the Imperial period (between 1910 and 1914). It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1923. It was situated on Lancaster Road, Rugby.
1 Photographs taken show a round barrow group at Oakley Wood.
2 Further investigation required to prove conclusively whether complete cemetery group. Negative field walking.
3 4 well ...
The possible site of a Second World War searchlight battery. The site is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. An alternative suggestion is that the cropmark shows several Bronze Age ring ditches. The site is located 400m north east of Wiggersland Wood.
OK message received, a five kiloton bomb has exploded over Warwickshire and it’s an airburst.
An airburst will destroy all property in a five mile radius.
Place a symbol on the operations ...
I have very hazy memories of the camp. I was born there in the early 1950s, and my parents must have moved in only a little while earlier. Mum always ...
1 A Permanent Starfish site (‘Starfish’ from Special Fires). Fire based decoys were set up following the bombing of Coventry in November 1940 to protect urban areas, in this case ...
The site of a fire based bombing decoy installation from the Second World War known as a Starfish. Night time fires were created to confuse enemy aircraft and to draw them away from their real target. Documentary evidence gives this grid reference 900m SW of Hunningham.
1 World War II Anti Aircraft Battery in good state of preservation at this location.
2 1948 AP shows 4 gun emplacements, central command post and two unidentified structures. Accommodation to ...
A ruined building which was formerly a Second World War anti aircraft battery. It lies 100 metres to the south of Rouncil Lane, near Goodrest Cottages.
1 Bombing decoy type M Series, a dummy building. These decoy buildings were expensive to construct and to maintain.They drew attacks in 1940, but not subsequently. Leamington Hastings was one ...
The site of a dummy factory from the Second World War constructed to protect the Armstrong Whitworth factory at Baginton by confusing enemy aircraft and prompting them to drop bombs in the wrong place. Information is from documentary evidence.
1 Of brick and concrete construction, in good condition.
A Second World War pillbox. It is situated on the former railway embankment at the west end of the viaduct over the canal at Radford Locks.
1 World War II defence site. Concrete cylinders and bridge narrowed with insitu concrete blocks and provision made for obstruction with posts on this bridge carrying Ridgeway Lane over the ...
World War II defence site. A bridge has been narrowed with concrete cylinders and provision made for obstruction with posts. The bridge carryies Ridgeway Lane over the canal at Offchurch.
1 The site of a heavy anti aircraft artillery site which was part of the Coventry Gun Defended Area, and was listed as F, title H67, being first mentioned in ...
The site of a heavy anti aircraft installation from the Second World War and identified at this grid reference from documentary evidence. It was located west of Gibbet Hill Road.